Anybody who has watched the march of jobs overseas already knows this, but it is nice to see science has finally caught up with what we already knew years ago. Look for more of this if a Cap and Trade bill passes in the U.S.. Senator Kerry says it has a “short fuse”. I don’t

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The global economy carbon yin yang

The House voted down a challenge to President Obama’s conduct of the war in Afghanistan Wednesday, rejecting a measure that would have compelled U.S. armed forces to leave the country within 30 days. WRH permalink

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House Rejects Bid to End Afghan War

Unemployment rates worsened in 30 states in January: In other words, unemployment increased in the majority of states. However, CNN is seeing the glass as half full, noting in a report entitled “State unemployment picture brightens”: WRH permalink

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Unemployment: Better, Worse or Less Bad?

An Israeli supermarket chain is using a spoof of surveillance footage showing the alleged assassins of a Hamas commander in a television advert. The advert’s fake grainy surveillance footage shows actors wearing elaborate disguises. WRH permalink

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Israel supermarket spoof parodies Dubai killing

People send me stuff. This one reminds me of a famous wrong way: Hi Anthony Today we had some rumour in the Dutch media due to a paper by a couple of econometricians which projected dramatic warming. Ross McKitrick discovered they had used a wrong dataset; We blogged about here: http://climategate.nl/2010/03/09/four-degrees-warming-in-2050-oops-you-used-the-wrong-dataset/ It would be nice if

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Wrong way econometricians

Labels it a ‘bailout’ for the insurance industry Facing razor-thin margins in the House, Democratic leaders are hoping to convert the sole liberal who opposes their health care bill, but it seems they have their work cut out because he isn’t budging. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Monday defended his opposition to the proposal in an appearance

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Kucinich: Why I may vote to kill health reform

The Senate’s official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com “are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate,” according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee. WRH permalink

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Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report

Stewart Dougherty | You should consider how to protect yourself from Executive Orders that could be issued at any time, under any pretext, and that could be extremely hostile to your financial and/or personal health and well being.

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America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship

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WeAreChange ATL @ Muse Concert

Daily Telegraph | Almost 1,700 people, including car park attendants and dog wardens, already have powers to hand out a string of fines.

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Brit Army of Spies Gets Police-style Powers

Given all of the discussions recently on issues with the surface network, I thought it would be a good idea to present this excellent paper by Lin and Hubbard and what they discovered about the accuracy, calibration and maintenance of the different sensors used in the climatic networks of the USA. Pay particular attention to

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Accuracy of climate station electronic sensors – not the best

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama administration official says the president plans to nominate a former top Army intelligence official to lead the Transportation Security Administration. The administration official says President Barack Obama has chosen retired General Robert Harding to lead the federal agency charged with keeping terrorists and bombs off airplanes. The official spoke on condition of

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Official: Former Army intel officer to lead TSA